Example sentences of "[coord] smile " in BNC.
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| 1 | Quote a Latin tag at him by mistake and he will examine his shoes or smile brazenly back at you . |
| 2 | Every time we laugh when we are hurt , or smile when we feel angry , it is like burying an unripe fruit inside us . |
| 3 | Dexter sat back in his armchair , unsure whether to laugh outright or smile knowingly at the businessman 's practical joke . |
| 4 | Throughout the two-day hearing , she appeared relaxed and confident , often turning to share a joke with her two male accomplices in the dock or smile at friends and family who crowded the court 's public benches . |
| 5 | He could smile to order or smile for real , with real pleasure , and it came out just the same , it came out so beautiful that you were sure not to notice the difference . |
| 6 | We do not speak or smile . |
| 7 | After Mark 's funeral Robyn 's lips had been so painful that she had hardly been able to speak or smile for days — but then that had suited her fine , still suited her , although no one guessed , except Anne perhaps . |
| 8 | I come in and put the bedside light on , and he lies there with his eyes half-open , conscious but immobilized , as if he were under some strange paralysing drug , unable to tell me what the trouble was , unable to nod or smile or shake off his dream . |
| 9 | She found that in the time allowed four-fifths of the adult pairs conversed , looked or smiled at each other . |
| 10 | When teachers , matrons , the housemistress and finally the headmistress all started to show some concern and more disapproval at my unco-operative ( anorexic ) behaviour , I refused to answer their questions , or even to talk to them at all , and during the course of their homilies I merely stared out of the window or smiled to myself in a superior , scornful sort of way . |
| 11 | When he waved or smiled at those he knew , they turned away , as if they did n't know him . |
| 12 | Several people waved theirs at Bobbie , and smiled as she went by — people who never usually waved or smiled at her . |
| 13 | Because if you substitute something into the God , it does n't really work or smiled upon fortune smiled upon him . |
| 14 | Sometimes I stop a total stranger in the street And say to him : Let's do that one more time , But this time walk past slower , with a limp , Or smiling to yourself , as one gone mad . |
| 15 | She neither bowed nor smiled and the words were grave but her eyes , he thought , seemed to gather all that was left of the best of the sun . |
| 16 | And she had nodded and smiled . |
| 17 | Instead of frowning while listening to your explanations he had nodded and smiled . |
| 18 | Ruth had nodded and smiled and Fernando had kissed the tip of her nose . |
| 19 | A two-foot high figure of Isambard Kingdom Brunel talks and smiles in his glass case . |
| 20 | as the words and smiles with which |
| 21 | Koons takes the photograph in his hand and smiles impishly , looking every bit the boy-next-door in his Reeboks , jeans and button-down shirt . |
| 22 | Heather pats the chair and smiles again , a truly horrible sight . |
| 23 | Vic glances in his rear-view mirror and smiles thinly . |
| 24 | Halted on the inside lane , Robyn catches the eye of a young West Indian with Rastafarian dreadlocks , hunched in the entrance of a boarded-up shop , and smiles : a friendly , sympathetic , anti-racist smile . |
| 25 | If Dave looks interested in Andy and smiles encouragingly , his sub-text reads , ‘ I 'm looking forward to chatting with you . ’ |
| 26 | Lurching slowly from side to side , becoming faster and steadier , the Vimy rose into the air followed by cheers from the spectators and smiles from the Vickers team . |
| 27 | And smiles her Cheshire cat grin . |
| 28 | Lawrence pauses and smiles faintly . |
| 29 | Malcolm , who is statemented , and has ‘ severe learning difficulties ’ ( as the educational psychologist puts it ) or who is ‘ dyslexic ’ ( as his parents , encouraged by the local Dyslexia Institute , put it ) or whom ‘ you just ca n't do anything with ’ ( as several of his teachers have put it ) , mouths the words as Beth reads and smiles broadly as she finishes . |
| 30 | She withdraws the blue-veined foot I am soothing and smiles sadly down . |